APPLICATION - The ESPON 2013 Database
Content:	Pdf file
Description:	This technical report describes the main functionalities of the ESPON 2013 Database: How to register? How to upload both data and metadata? How to query and retrieval such data and metadata?
Data provider:	ESPON DB
Access:	Public and free access
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APPLICATION - A two-step approach to structure the ESPON 2013 DB by themes and sub-themes
Content:	Pdf file
Description:	This report includes a literature review and some additional thoughts on the importance of building a corporate thesaurus for structuring knowledge and ease information retrieval.
Data provider:	ESPON DB
Access:	Public and free access
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APPLICATION - Coding scheme to label indicators: Guiding principles to TPGs involved in ongoing and future ESPON projects
Content:	Pdf file
Description:	This technical report provides a number of guiding principles to generate harmonised codes for both statistical and geographical data delivered by TPGs involved in ESPON projects.
Data provider:	ESPON DB
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APPLICATION - Towards an ESPON thesaurus? Some preliminary considerations for the thematic structuring of the ESPON database
Content:	Pdf file
Description:	The second report corresponds to the ESPON Database project empirical work on thematic structuring. That is, it offers a two-step approach to structure the ESPON 2013 DB by themes and sub-themes.
Data provider:	ESPON DB
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APPLICATION - Update of the ESPON 2006 Database in the 2013 version
Content:	Pdf file
Description:	This technical report describes the strategy used for integrating ESPON 2006 indicators in the last version of the database.
Data provider:	ESPON DB
Access:	Public and free access
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METHODOLOGY - Empirical approach and applications for modeling NUTS changes and managing time series data
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Description:	This technical report proposes three complementary methods in order to overcome the problem of the lack of data due to territorial changes.
Data provider:	ESPON DB
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METHODOLOGY - OLAP Cube
Content:	Pdf file
Description:	This document presents the OLAP Cube solution implemented in order to combine data from several data sources and formats, mainly socioeconomic statistics together with continuous data, such as land cover.
Data provider:	ESPON DB
Access:	Public and free access
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METHODOLOGY - Spatial analysis for quality control (v1)
Content:	Pdf file
Description:	This report presents Techniques to statistically identify outliers, using worked examples that have been coded with R open source software.
Data provider:	ESPON DB
Access:	Public and free access
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METHODOLOGY - Spatial analysis for quality control (v2)
Content:	Pdf file
Description:	This technical report provides milestones for interpreting results derving from quality control.
Data provider:	ESPON DB
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METHODOLOGY - Using downscaled population in local data generation
Content:	Pdf file
Description:	This document proposes a country level examination of the population grid by comparing the population grid produced by the JRC and the Swedish register population data.
Data provider:	ESPON DB
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METHODOLOGY - Spatial data creation for Europe
Content:	Pdf file
Description:	The report investigates how to enhance the availability of spatially fine-grained socio-economic data required for addressing urgent societal problems in Europe.
Data provider:	ESPON DB
Access:	Public and free access
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METHODOLOGY - Mapping guide
Content:	Pdf file
Description:	This technical report provides guidelines for showing indicators on maps.
Data provider:	ESPON DB
Access:	Public and free access
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METHODOLOGY - Mapping guide for ESPON Projects
Content:	Pdf file
Description:	This technical report provides guidelines for showing indicators on maps, using ESPON Template.
Data provider:	ESPON DB
Access:	Restricted to ESPON Projects
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ENLARGING DATA COLLECTION - World database
Content:	Pdf file
Description:	This technical report provides description of ESPON 2013 Database World indicators and the main World databases. Again, results coming from Eurostat database and World databases have been compared through the Gap Tracker Tool methodology.
Data provider:	ESPON DB
Access:	Public and free access
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ENLARGING DATA COLLECTION - Westerern Balkans and Turkey
Content:	Pdf file
Description:	This technical report presents the data availability and quality on Western Balkans and Turkey.
Data provider:	ESPON DB
Access:	Public and free access
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ENLARGING DATA COLLECTION - Local data in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia
Content:	Pdf file
Description:	This report makes an overview of available material at local scale in 5 countries of Eastern Europe.
Data provider:	ESPON DB
Access:	Public and free access
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ENLARGING DATA COLLECTION - Producing innovative indicators at local scale
Content:	Pdf file
Description:	This report shows some methods derived from statistics, spatial analysis and GIS which could be used for producing innovative indicators at local scale.
Data provider:	ESPON DB
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ENLARGING DATA COLLECTION - Naming UMZ
Content:	Pdf file
Description:	The spatial units derived from the UMZ database (EEA) are not described by a name, which is essential to create a semantic link with the territory. This report shows the methodology used to achieve this task.
Data provider:	ESPON DB
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ENLARGING DATA COLLECTION - LUZ Specifications
Content:	Pdf file
Description:	Larger Urban Zones are based on various national definitions (functional areas, planning regions, local administrative units, etc.). This report proposes a common "syntax" for categorizing LUZ.
Data provider:	ESPON DB
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ENLARGING DATA COLLECTION - The FUA database
Content:	Pdf file
Description:	This technical report shows the methodology used for implementing data in the FUA database.
Data provider:	ESPON DB
Access:	Public and free access
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